Untitled Film Stills (1990) contains 40 black-and-white photographs of Cindy Sherman, concocted to look like turning points from movies that don’t exist. Each shot is a frozen melodrama from Fiftiesland—a postwar location where women do a lot of waiting and reacting to things they didn’t set in motion.
In one shot, Sherman is on her back on top of tousle…
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